Ivan Goran Kovacic the poet our school is named after

Ivan Goran Kovacic was born in Lukovdol ( Gorski Kotar ), Croatia on  the first day of spring 1913. After he had  finished Gimnasium in Zagreb, he studied History and Croatian language. and literature. Together with the poet Vladimir Nazor he joined to  the  anti-fascists in 1942. In 1943 he was killed by chetnicks. 
During his  short  life  he worked on literature, journalism, literature critics and translation. His dialectal collection of poems  Fires and Roses is  well- know as well as his collection of stories The Days  of  Madness. 
In his  war poem  The Hole,  he strongly protested against evil and crime.

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